CLOSING ARGUMENTS WAITED IN REWALD TRIAL

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 26, 2010
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• Publication Date: October 16, 1985
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Closing Arguments Waited
in Rewald Trial
"'By Charles Memminger
Star-Bulletin Writer
The Ronald Rewald trial is "all
over except for the shouting," as
one lawyer put it.
Attorneys for both sides have
been huddled in their offices
since Monday preparing for the
"shouting," or closing argu-
ments, expected to take up most
of today.
No more motions will be filed.
No more complaints will be lodg-
ed with the judge. No more wit-
nesses will take the stand. After
11 weeks, everything that either
side could do to help its case has
been done.
Assistant U.S. Attorney John
Peyton, a veteran trial lawyer,
will give the first part of the
government's closing argument.
He will be followed by Brian
Tamanaha, the young deputy
federal public defender who has
been the point man in Rewald's
defense.,
Theodore Greenberg, a special
attorney from the Justice De-
partment who has been involved
in a number of trials involving
the CIA, will conduct the final
part of the government's closing
argument.
THE GOVERNMENT gets to
address the jury twice, the jury
will be told, because it has the
burden of proving that Rewald
is guilty "beyond a reasonable
doubt."
Both sides are expected to
argue that legal concept at
length. The defense case has
been framed around creating
doubt in the minds of the jurors.
Should one juror of the 12per-
son panel not be convinced that
Rewald is
guilty of fraud, per=
jury and tax evasion, the case
will end in a mistrial. The gov-
ernment will then be faced with
the costly and time-consuming
process of retrial.
'Ironically, none of the 18 pea
?W box have been sitting in the
jury box for more than two
months know if they are Jurors
or alternates. After the g
arguments are complete, U.S.
Judge Harold Fong will dismiss
the six alternate jurors.. The
alternates have been known only
to the judge and attorneys, to
assure that all of the jurors will
pay attention during the long
trial
The unusually large number of
alternates was chosen because of
I he possibility that one or more
urors would be forced, through-
llness or other _ problems, to
ithdraw.
NONE OF the 'jurors, however
has been forced to drop out of
the trial. In fact, there have
been only a few times when
trial was delayed because a juror
was late getting in the court-
room.
None of the jurors has even
Appeared to have dozed off dur-
ing the long trial. That may be
g
because they have seen a long
line of colorful, famous an
sometimes mysterious people
taking the stand to testify.
Jurors watched a number of
former CIA agents take the
stand and describe -their associa-
tion with Rewald. They did not,
however, see hard-boiled agents
in trenchcoats. They saw one
agent, Jack Kindschi, break
down in tears as he described
how his mother lost her life sav-
ings to Rewald.
They saw former CIA office
chief Jack Rardin get choked up
when he described how be was
reprimanded for his handling of
Rewald. Rardin said it was the
only "black spot" on his 3o year
CIA record.
Ronald Rewald
Lawyers ready case for jury
THE JURY saw Jack Lord
angrily suggest that Rewald had
told a "damnable lie" -when he
said Lord- had-an office with
Bishop, Baldwin, Rewald, Dilling-
ham & Wong. But the famous
television actor smiled and nod-
ded at the jury as he left the
stand.
The jury saw a string of
women take the stand and testi-
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Closing Arguments. Due
in 11-Week Rewald Case
C*Mud Irm Par On from everybody from
from nmr from a National
National
fy that they received money
from Rewald for social or sexual
conthet. There was standing
?' room only In the court when
blonde model Cynthia Brooks, a
Playboy centerfold, stepped into
the witness box. She told the
jury she had received some
money from Rewald, but also
lost a good deal of her own
when the company collapsed in
19 The jury heard Rewald's for-
mer partner, Sunlin Wong, de
-
scribe how Rewald once asked
him to try to bribe a Waikiki
gypsy to give a fake spiritual
reading to an elderly woman
Re- Wald was trying to cultivate as
an investor.
There was some chuckling in
3 the court when Wong described
how he attended the Los An-
i..geles "funeral" of J. Randall Dill-
Ingham. D' along with
Bishop and dwin, did not
actually exist. The 36-year-old
Wong said he merely walked,the
streets of Los Angeles for a day
until it was time to return from
the "funeral."
WONG STILL' Is serving a two-
year prison term after pleading
guilty to mail and security fraud
ors partn runnmeewas
f hi i Bld'
company.
ling when Capt. Ned: Ag~ry took
airline pilot and former Rewald
judge, argued with defense
si to the jury.
nhe jury heard testimony
Football ue official to Re-
wald's bodyguard. The govern-
ment Pulied no punches in chos-
Mwhkb of the 400 investors
lost money it would put on
the stand. There was a blind
man, a crippled elderly woman
and a woman who lost her hus-
band and sow In a plane crash.
IN CONTRAST to the more
than 100 witnesses put on by the
government, the defense put on
fewer than 10.
The jury also did not see the
man who was to be the trial's
star witness, Rewald himself. At
the last minute, Rewald decided
not to take the stand. The rea-
son, according to his attorneys,
was that Judge Fong refused to
let Rewald testify about the full
range of Rew 's, association
with the CIA. The judge ruled
months before the trial that the
only CIA evidence that could be
allowed by the defense would be
That showing the CIA actually
managed, directed or. controlled
investor money or BBED&W. .
Sometime this afternoon, after
the "shouting" subsides, th jury
will begin to weigh all of the
evidence it has heard. Thpn,
after what is expected to be
days of deliberations, the jury
will return to the courtroom
with its verdict. It is fitting that
the courtroom is named Aha
Kupono," or "Justice."
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